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Seminar Topics

AUTUMN

Week 1: [No classes for Year 2 options, but see Introduction and Organization]

Week 2: Politics and Tensions

Week 3: Living in Late Medieval Germany

Week 4: Religious Beliefs and Practices

Week 5: Debate - An Age of Reform or Decline?

[Reading Week]

Weeks 7-8 : Luther - Man, Myth & Message

Weeks 9-10: Oral, Written & Visual Communication 

 

SPRING

Week 11: The Reformed

Week 12: Reformation Writing - Issues and Resources

Week 13: The Peasants' War 

Week 14-15: [no classes]

[Reading Week]

Week 17: The Kingdom of Münster 

Week 18: Deciding on Faith in Sixteenth-Century Cities 

Week 19: Debate - Was the Reformation 'Good for Women'? 

Week 20: Institutionalizing the Reformation 

 

SUMMER

Week 21: [no classes]

Week 22: Confessional Identities 

Week 23: Charles V - a failure?

Week 24: Conclusion 

(tbc): Revision session